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foreign exchange

foreign exchange noun: the exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country.

Noun

foreign exchange (countable and uncountable, plural foreign exchanges)

  1. The exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country.
    • Near-synonyms: currency exchange, money changing
  2. Foreign currency.
    • "foreign exchange" means foreign currency and includes,- (i) deposits, credits and balances payable in any foreign currency, (ii) drafts, travelers cheques, letters of credit or bills of exchange, expressed or drawn in Indian currency but payable in any foreign currency, (iii) drafts, travelers...1999, THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MANAGEMENT ACT, 1999, NO. 42 OF 1999 [29th December, 1999.]
    Synonyms:
    forex

foreign exchange meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Arabic

foreign exchange in Tamil

exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country
அன்னியச் செலாவணி aṉṉiyac celāvaṇi

foreign exchange in Kannada

ವಿದೇಶಿ ವಿನಿಮಯ, ನಾಣ್ಯ ವಿನಿಮಯ

foreign exchange in Tagalog

exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country
palitang panlabas

foreign exchange in Arabic

exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country
سوق صرف العملات
More languagesFewer languages
foreign exchange in Malay
pasaran pertukaran asing
foreign exchange in Indonesian
pasar valuta asing
foreign exchange in Thai
ตลาดเงินตราต่างประเทศ dtàlàat ngern dtraa dtàang bpràtâyt

Synonyms of foreign exchange

Forms of foreign exchange

pluralforeign exchanges

Words formed from foreign exchange

Questions about foreign exchange

What does foreign exchange mean?
Foreign exchange means the exchange of currency from one country for currency from another country.
What is foreign exchange in Tamil?
Foreign exchange in Tamil is அன்னியச் செலாவணி (aṉṉiyac celāvaṇi). See Foreign exchange meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is foreign exchange?
Foreign exchange is a noun.
What is the plural of foreign exchange?
The plural of foreign exchange is foreign exchanges.

Words near foreign exchange in the dictionary

  1. foreign debts
  2. foreign devil
  3. foreign devils
  4. foreign direct investment
  5. foreign direct investments
  6. foreign exchange
  7. foreign exchange certificate
  8. foreign exchange certificates
  9. foreign exchange control
  10. foreign exchange controls
  11. foreign exchange market

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreign exchange (page history and authors); foreign exchange (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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